Volume 21 | Number 3 | Issue 95 | Spring 2011 Obituary: Yvonne du Fresne Garth Baker: Spiro Zavos, How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011 Dougal McNeill: Vincent O’Sullivan, The Movie May Be Slightly Different Anne Else:…
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Poem – Tim Upperton
Obituary — Yvonne du Fresne
How the ball will bounce, Garth Baker
How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011 Spiro Zavos Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877551093 How timely – a book to help desperate All Black fans get through that most harrowing of experiences, the Rugby World Cup. Despite being…
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Tagged with: Awa Press, Garth Baker, Issue 95, Spiro Zavos, Spring 2011
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Not all freckles and nostalgia, Dougal McNeill
The Movie May Be Slightly Different Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 97800864736437 Adorno’s term for those last, wild works of Beethoven’s was “late style”, describing a maturity that is for the most part not round, but furrowed…
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Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Issue 95, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Occupation: housewife, Anne Else
Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975 Frances Walsh Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621650 I was really looking forward to this book. As soon as I could read, I started reading my mother’s magazines. Every week she…
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Tagged with: Anne Else, Frances Walsh, Godwit, Issue 95, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Good meaty stuff, Dale Williams
From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen: New Zealand Culinary Traditions and Cookbooks Helen Leach (ed) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978877372759 Graham Kerr famously said that New Zealand had no culinary tradition, but, as a chef, he probably judged us…
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Tagged with: Dale Williams, Helen Leach, Issue 95, Otago University Press, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The unhistoric story, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator Joan Druett Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869793869 One of the great virtues of Joan Druett’s style of historical writing in this extensive reassessment of Tupaia’s role in Pacific history, is…
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Tagged with: Issue 95, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Joan Druett, Random House, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Smoke gets in our eyes, Colin Morris
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 Chris Bourke Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404550 To anybody under the age of 25, it might come as a shock to read Chris Bourke’s book and discover…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Bourke, Colin Morris, Issue 95, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Boys will be … David Hill
Little Criminals: The Story of a New Zealand Boys’ Home David Cohen Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869790325 Our attitudes towards the welfare of our children seem to lurch between outrage and indifference. When a child is grossly abused or…
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Tagged with: David Cohen, David Hill, Issue 95, Random House, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review